Adventure Magazine Cover — page 178: what you’re looking at

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176 down the steep bank of a creek and splashed across. : 7 ““Aluh?” Tad paused in the search for a cigaret paper to grin tolerantly at his partner. ‘“‘Meanin’ the way yuh acted at the Steve boy’s weddin’ yesterday. Yuh mind that stage uh the game when the judge turned to yuh, after splicin’ Steve and the Patsy gal?” “Yeah. I recollect, runt. I wa’n’t so lickered up as a short-complected friend uh mine that was millin’ around in a suit uh checked store clothes, a-lettin’ his spurs drag so’s full grown folks ’ud see him and keep from trompin’ on him. Who was that ole gal with the strawberry-roan hair and buck teeth that you and the Slash R cook was follerin’ aroun’?”’ “Yo’re side-steppin’ my question, ox. When the judge prods yuh behind the withers and says, ‘Salute the bride, best at MN ¢ 1g fat | pap: Son easier Sah ‘ A, = g * , ‘a . Pp PN LOLs OM hh Ee - of5 4 “Bb NS 4 5b 5 ( Z Ft. fs pe ye £7, 2. 27 OK | “‘ GEEZ SANS ; RZ ew ek oan By 0 . f . \g N ‘4, we Ka eo LO iQ I oe Adventure man,’ what do yuh do, huh? Yuh backs off from that there bride like she was a rattler. Best man? Best Ne “And when ole Roany asked fer the third helpin’ uh ice cream, yuh like to knocked a hip down beatin’ the cook to her empty dish. Wait till we gits back to the Gila Bend and I tells that speckled-faced school-marm how yuh carried on with Roany. ‘The older some men gets, the less sense they “ ‘“‘Aw, let a man be, can’t yuh?” ‘Then loan me the use uh a cigaret paper and quit runnin’ off at the head. Kinda nacheral fer me ’n’ you to be ridin’ the grub- line again, runt.” Tad rolled and lighted a cigaret, then grinned at his partner. ‘“‘Wonder what’s the name uh that last crick we crossed?” “Alkali,” returned Shorty promptly as he headed the Skewball horse south. COMIGDOO C@